Supreme_Idler thnks! well, i am not confident about passing it on the first try, actually i was a lot nervous when i first sent the mail, but when i thought that they still didn't send a reply [cause, i sent the first mail almost a month ago], i got very dejected..... well, i had almost given up on going through the forums and all, but when i saw, someone saying, "give it a try, give it a try and u will become an editor", i felt that i should give some 'try' and see why i didn't got a reply [ by the way, i also didn't get a reply when i gave a test in another translation site, so i'm pretty... furious, as to why am i getting ignored by the webnovel world] .... anyway, thnks man!

      Wait, so if you want to become an editor/translator, do you just email the recruitment email saying that you want to be an editor/translator? And then they'll send you an application? confused but interested

        giantrabbit yes you get an application via emailing qidian then u can take the test for the position you want to apply for

            17 days later

            Nou So I did eventually get an email from Qidian about the test and was held up by a week or 2 finally sat down put in a little time and completed; it didn't take to long but found TONS of errors. Quite frankly the test was triggering all of my bad memories I have had of all the mental self editing I've had to go through over the past 2yrs when reading some of these TL's 'edited' releases. I think I did an alright job but I haven't actually heard back from Qidian since Saturday when I submitted it, this is the 3rd day since then since I submitted it at night.

            I'm not the best at grammar but I made that story flow!

                SirLobo93 The results are announced in batches and if I'm not mistaken, the previous batch was quite recent. So you might need to wait awhile, regardless, all the best to you :)

                    Olivia It gave me a headache and was frustrating but nothing compared to fully MTL'd novels, there is also a strange satisfaction from actually being able to correct it for a purpose instead of doing it mentally and moving on to the next thing.

                    Lonelytree Ah thanks, if that's really the case I hope its done every 2 weeks or month. There are plenty of stories I'm having an issue enjoying because of poor or no editing. Are there not enough editors compared to TL's? I mean there is no excuse for Cultivator Chat group to have numbers instead of the actual name of the character, especially since everyone reading the novel knows the character from the original TL's... that's just one example of many.

                          Most commonly, there are less editors than translators, so some stories stay waiting to be released for quite some time until someone can actually be found to edit them.

                            SirLobo93
                            You are right, I just gave it a shoot and it is pretty satisfying :D

                            but it still gives me a headache T_T

                            EDIT:
                            if I keep up this pace part 3 would take me an hour and I don't feel like it is worth it.
                            32DKK/5$ an hour is under 1/3 of my current wage

                                lol, you don't get to edit stuff like what you saw in part 3 of the test. Everything is quite readable and your task is only to make it even more so, correcting some typos, some tenses here and there, or the flow. It can take some time, but nowhere near what part 3 did.

                                CH405Kaiser Nope. Or at least I don't think so. There weren't any dates written in the email I received when I applied.

                                    Olivia Well I don't think this is a main job for those with real lives lol Its maybe part time at best. I don't think it took me an hour to edit part 3 but the over all test maybe took me close to an hour. I'm not great with punctuation I'm mainly good at story flow and grammar. For spelling its all up to god and auto correct!

                                    They made part 3 purposefully worse than it should be I feel; so I think editing would take maybe 3-40 minutes per chapter max.

                                    DarkGem Hopefully I drummed up some interest in Editing, god knows its needed. I have seen novels edited by their TLs and turn out bad

                                    I turned in my test days after I actually got it so I'm hoping there isn't a time statement as well. Also was I supposed to keep those instructional bits in? I just copy pasted the entire thing and edited parts 1-3 without deleting those.

                                          Is it weird that I found the first part tougher than both the second and third?

                                          For some reason, I had a lot of fun with the third part of the editor test.

                                          SirLobo93The email said to take your time with the editing, so I don't believe that it would matter as long as you send it in before the new version of the test comes out. Also, I left all of the instructions in the document too. For the third part, I opened a new document and re-wrote it while looking at the original, which made it somewhat easier.

                                          I very much hope that I pass. If not, I won't be able to look my Technical Writing professor in the eyes.

                                              SunriseCV The first part may have been harder for you to get used to because you have to adjust your mind set to that of someone correcting someone's mistakes. That being said I haven't edited others works seriously before so I don't know.

                                              You looked back at the old version? I would have found that distracting I just edit in my mind and make sure it sounds correct and has a good uninterrupted flow.

                                              If I get it and you don't I'd be surprised lol I'm terrible at punctuations.

                                                  SirLobo93 Yeah, the way my mind works when I read something, It kind of already starts correcting mistakes, which makes re-writing very jumbled paragraphs easier than just straight editing. On the bright side, it's more fun to edit these translations that it was to edit research articles and such back in college... Haha...

                                                  Maybe we will both pass, then we can start a new Editors Sect and begin the plan for world, no, universal domination. Muwhahahaha!

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